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“And we are able to give upcoming bands a place to feature their music and give them a forum they may not neccesarily get. We’ve found those have been our key places where we are getting a lot of interest.”

Richard Kibbey designed the website

In the meantime the labour of love provides enough glamour to keep volunteers interested. Website designer Richard Kibbey, for example, was invited to film some work for Henley-based charity Sunflower Jam, run by Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice’s wife Jacky, but the encounter ended up being far more glitzy than he had imagined.

Mr Kibbey, 41, of Carterton, said: “I turned up, expecting there to be other music media there but it was just me. Then not only was Ian there, but Jeremy Irons, Newton Faulkner, Rick Wakeman and singer Joe Brown.

Jeremy Irons

Newton Faulkner

“It was so surreal. I was sat down having dinner with them.

“That is just one thing that I love about it here. It makes all the hard work worth it when you can say things like that.

“It would be amazing if this could be something which meant we could do it as a full-time job.”

The project is clearly something close to all of their hearts, and if the past three years are anything to go by, then its future looks promising.

As Mr Kibbey said: “It sounds cheesy but it is so good to be involved in a community project.

“David Cameron went on about the Big Society and while it may not have necessarily taken off everywhere, it definitely took off for me with this.”

OxBox Radio will launch to coincide with the company’s third birthday on March 18.

It plans to broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week and presenters will be able to broadcast from their own homes or the studio in Avenue Three, Witney.

Gavin Hyatt says modern technology will be used to interact with the audience, including listeners being able to call them through the online messaging service Skype.

He said: “Using Skype means people will be able to call us from wherever they are.

“It is great that with the way technology is going that we can have people broadcasting from across the county, and our listeners being able to call us up using the internet.

“We will have to have a 30-second delay though, just in case people say anything too outrageous.”

The radio shows will offer listeners a “mixed bag” of commercial and chart music, local news, current affairs, Oxfordshire music, sport and anything else which falls within the county.

Mr Hyatt, who also runs GreenRoomStudio from the site, will also give bands the opportunity to record a set which can be broadcast in a “live lounge”-style broadcast showcasing just them.

Adie Gargan

Adie Gargan will host one of the new shows on the radio station.

Mr Gargan, 42, of Madley Park, Witney, is a window cleaner by day and soon-to-be ‘Steve Wright’-style co-presenter on OxBox radio.

The father-of-two said: “I do quite a bit of acting and I have experience in filming and I started doing this about 18 months ago.

“I really like the community side of things and am really looking forward to the radio show. It will be a bit of banter and getting people to phone in and stuff like that.”

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More than 15,000 followers across social media sites.

Launched in March 2011.

Radio station will take to airwaves on its third birthday, March 18, and will broadcast 24/7.

Currently playing a test stream with live broadcasts of Oxford City Stars Ice Hockey matches from the Oxford Ice Rink.